The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. was a spin-off of the highly successful
series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Leo G. Carroll played Mr. Waverly
in both and the first actor to be in two series simultaneously.

Type: Scripted

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 60 minutes

Premier: 1966-09-13

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. - Alexander Waverly - Netflix

Alexander Waverly is a fictional character from the 1960s television
show The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and its spin-off series The Girl from
U.N.C.L.E.. The original series was remarkable for pairing an American
Napoleon Solo and a Russian Illya Kuryakin as two spies who work
together for an international espionage organization at the height of
the Cold War. Mr. Waverly is the head of the U.N.C.L.E. organization and
was played by the English actor Leo G. Carroll.

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. - Personality - Netflix

Waverly is the stereotypical Englishman, formal, reserved, dressing in
tweeds and smoking a large pipe. He addresses everyone by their courtesy
titles and surnames. He is the head of Section One in U.N.C.L.E.
headquarters in New York. He appears to have been something of a ladies
man in his youth ('The Bow Wow Affair). In the first two seasons Waverly
is depicted as an unsentimental, tough, pragmatic leader. By the third
season, however, he is presented as a more humane, although still
pragmatic character. In the third season two-part episode 'The Concrete
Overcoat Affair,' Solo objects to the fact that his partner Kuryakin has
been sent on a suicide mission. Although he chastises the agent for
questioning his authority, Waverly allows him to go to Kuryakin's aid.
As Solo leaves, Waverly can be heard muttering, “Alexander Waverly,
sentimental grandmother of the year.” Although primarily working out of
headquarters, on rare occasions Waverly joins in missions in the field.
He goes undercover in 'The Pieces of Fate Affair' and during the show's
fourth season, he is captured along with three of his agents. He
masterminds their escape with the aid of a blade hidden in a flower in
his buttonhole ('The Deep Six Affair').